eli5: How does every browser understand the same link?

Question

How can I open a link in chrome and take the same link and it works with safari or opera or any other browser?

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Answer 1

There’s an organization called the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
It’s a not-for-profit organization that maintains the HTML standard.
HTML is basically the Language that makes a website and W3C made it and continues to maintains it.
All the websites use it, mainly because they all agreed to. It’s convenient to have one group set the standard and everyone else follows it.
And the browsers are also written to understand it.

But you don’t have to, and many apps use the internet without using HTML. It’s just the browsers and websites use it.